The Gateway PunditWhere Hope Finally Made a Comeback2015-08-02T21:52:59Zhttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/feed/atom/WordPressJim Hofthttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?p=3189772015-08-02T21:52:59Z2015-08-02T21:52:59ZFar left activists returned to Canfield Drive last night and built up another street memorial for robber cop-beater Mike Brown. ...

]]>Things got very awkward on Thursday when Chris Matthews asked DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz what the difference was between the modern Democratic Party and Socialism.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was completely stumped.She couldn’t answer the question.We haven’t seen that dazed look since Rachel Dolezal was busted as a fraud.

Because, as we all know, there is no difference between today’s Democrat Party and radical Socialism.

On Sunday DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was again asked to explain the difference between the modern day Democratic Party and Socialism.Again She failed.

“You know Chuck it is always fun to be interviewed by Chris Matthews and I know that he enjoys that banter. The important distinction that I think we’re going to be discussing, I’m confident we’ll be discussing in this campaign, is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats want to make sure that people have an opportunity to reach, climb the ladders of success and reach the Middle Class, have a good education, have a secure retirement. Look at the Republican field for what they stand for is the extremism you see in full display….”

“”It was a real bomb, I saw all the parts,” said Cavalry Baptist member Dennis Llewellyn, who said he was outside the church when the explosive went off. Llewellyn said he was a former special forces member with the Marines and recognized the bomb parts that included an Everready battery. He and fellow church member, Mike Stewart, kept churchgoers arriving for the 8:30 a.m. service from going into the building during the five to 10 minutes it took for police to arrive. Stewart was the one to notice the debris and damaged mailbox, the two men said.

“Llewellyn described the explosion as loud, and Stewart, who was inside, said it shook the building. Llewellyn said there were about 30 people inside the building when the explosion occurred.”

…”The 8 a.m. Mass was going on when the disturbance hit Holy Cross Catholic Church. Ann Marie Sullivan, a college student and lifelong parishioner at Holy Cross, described it. “It sounded like something had fallen off and shattered the glass in the back.”

…”At the end of the Lord’s Prayer, the pastor sent a deacon to find out what had happened, who reported that a bomb had exploded in a trash can outside the front glass doors, shattering the thick glass.”

UPDATE by JIM HOFT:

A close friend of The Gateway Pundit was at the Catholic Church when the bomb exploded. This is what we were told—

John was at our church when it happened. No injuries and both bombs went off in the parking lot.

The one at Holy Cross was in a trash can and my dad said the glass doors shattered. The entryway ceiling is coming down. The explosion happened during the Consecration. All of the parishioners were escorted out of the church and had to call family and friends for rides. The bomb at the other church was planted in a mailbox. This is so unsettling since our kids school is 50 feet away from the church and school starts in a week and a half.

]]>13Jim Hofthttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?p=3189592015-08-02T18:50:53Z2015-08-02T18:50:53ZWith unemployment numbers at record levels and radical Islam on the march across the Middle East, Democrats focus on what’s ...

Democrats introduced “The Cecil Act” following the outcry over the poached lion in Zimbabwe.

The Democrats will make it illegal to import large animal trophies into the country.Huffington Post reported:

Four Democratic senators announced Friday that they will introduce a bill named for the beloved Zimbabwean lion Cecil, who was killed by an American trophy hunter earlier this month.

The Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act would extend current U.S. import and export restrictions on animal trophies to include species that have been proposed for listing as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Current law provides protection only for species whose status on the list has been finalized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and it can take over a year for the agency to complete an assessment.

“Cecil’s death was a preventable tragedy that highlights the need to extend the protections of the Endangered Species Act,” Menendez said in a statement on Friday. “When we have enough concern about the future of a species to propose it for listing, we should not be killing it for sport.” In a similar statement, Blumenthal called the hunting of endangered species “a reprehensible and repugnant act.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already proposed adding the African lion to the list of species covered by the Endangered Species Act, but the agency has yet to finalize the designation. The CECIL Act would ensure that species under consideration for protection are automatically covered by the tightest import restrictions on sport hunted trophies.

]]>16Jim Hofthttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?p=3189502015-08-02T15:55:49Z2015-08-02T15:54:37ZIt has been widely reported that ISIS throws gays from buildings. Now they want to throw gays from planes. ISIS ...

ISIS recently held a Ramadan Quran contest. The winners were awarded with their own Yazidi girls. This Qur’an Competition for Ramadan 1436 / 2015 to Ramadan 1437 / 2016, held to “inspire” ISIS fighters, offers a “beautiful young girl” as the Grand Prize for the top winner.

]]>34Jim Hofthttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?p=3189332015-08-02T14:08:54Z2015-08-02T13:59:08ZWe were warned… In January 2008 Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle: “Under my plan of a cap and ...

]]>We were warned… In January 2008 Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers.”

He promised that his plan would cause electricity rates to skyrocket.

He wasn’t kidding.

Now this…Obama announced his new energy plan on Saturday that will squeeze energy companies and force consumer prices to necessarily skyrocket.

BREAKING: On Monday, President Obama will release the final version of America's Clean Power Planthe biggest, most…

The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, has released a statement claiming that it has captured US-trained rebels belonging to a group called “Division 30.” The statement, seen below, was released today on one of the group’s official Twitter feeds.

It is not clear how many fighters have been supposedly captured, but Al Nusrah says they are part of an American scheme that is opposed to the interests of the Syrian people. Al Qaeda’s branch claims the men entered the war “a few days ago” after “completing the training program” and accuses them of trying to form “the nucleus” of a “national army.” Al Nusrah blasts America’s attempt to bolster the “moderate opposition.”

The group alleges further that the fighters were coordinating their efforts with the US-backed coalition, which simultaneously bombed Al Nusrah Front positions, leaving “a number” of jihadists dead and wounded. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has independently reported that coalition war planes bombed an Al Nusrah Front headquarters. SOHR’s reporting also lends credence to Al Nusrah’s description of the rebel faction, saying that “50 members of the Division 30 entered Syria in July…after finishing from a training course by western countries in Turkey.”

There has been much confusion concerning the fate of the US-backed rebels. Earlier this week, a statement attributed to “Division 30″ was posted online. The message’s authors accused Al Nusrah of capturing their leader and some of their fellow fighters.

The Pentagon refuted these claims, saying that no members of the New Syrian Force, as the US-backed fighters are called, had fallen into al Qaeda’s hands.

The US has only trained 60 Syrian fighters to take on ISIS.ISIS has 20,000 to 30,000 fighters.

]]>On December 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot dead by a group of suspected drug cartel along the Mexican border in Peck Canyon, northwest of Nogales, Arizona. The guns used to kill Brian Terry were traced back to Operation Fast and Furious.

In September 2011 the Attorney General of Mexico confirmed 200 murders happened in Mexico as a direct result of Operation Fast and Furious.

In May 2012another murder connected to Operation Fast and Furious surfaced. According to a congressional report released, Mario González Rodríguez, brother of the state attorney general of Chihuahua at the time, was also murdered by guns traced back to Operation Fast and Furious. The U.S. withheld this information from Mexican authorities for eight months.

Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.

At the time, Lone Wolf Trading Co. was known among gun smugglers for selling illegal firearms. And with Soofi’s history of misdemeanor drug and assault charges, there was a chance his purchase might raise red flags in the federal screening process.

Inside the store, he fudged some facts on the form required of would-be gun buyers.

What Soofi could not have known was that Lone Wolf was at the center of a federal sting operation known as Fast and Furious, targeting Mexican drug lords and traffickers. The idea of the secret program was to allow Lone Wolf to sell illegal weapons to criminals and straw purchasers, and track the guns back to large smuggling networks and drug cartels.

Instead, federal agents lost track of the weapons and the operation became a fiasco, particularly after several of the missing guns were linked to shootings in Mexico and the 2010 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona.

Well this is comforting. Not only did Fast and Furious guns end up inside the Mexican Cartel, but Islamic terrorists scooped a few up, too.